The Vagabond

April 1, 2026

July 14, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s first and only cotton compress was located where the A.T. Stocks Medical Building once stood at...

July 7, 2023

By Danny Crownover A story was written in 1927 to the effect that the mechanical wherewithal of Sand Mountain resident Clau...

June 30, 2023

By Danny Crownover While watching several fire engines and a huge aerial truck race out of Gadsden’s 4th Street Station the ot...

June 23, 2023

By Danny Crownover The Vagabond has heard stories about how Thomas B. Cooper, a wealthy iron manufacturer and noted legisla...

June 16, 2023

By Danny Crownover In 1947, an announcement that the new Gadsden Curb Market at Sixteenth Street and Forrest Avenue would b...

June 9, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s first furniture factory was located on the east side of North Fifth Street at the corner of Locu...

June 2, 2023

By Danny Crownover In 1898 there was what was called at that time an epidemic of horse thievery, so frequent and so general as to a...

May 11, 2023

By Danny Crownover The first electrically operated manufacturing plant in Gadsden was a small corn-grinding mill located in...

May 5, 2023

By Danny Crownover In July of 1879, experienced workers arrived in Gadsden from Chattanooga, Tenn., to operate a new sawmill of...

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